Arena Football™ - A refreshing take on an already classic game

Review

It is different indoors: the speed, the scoring, the spectacle. Experience the intensity and passion of the indoor gridiron for the first time with EA SPORTS™ Arena Football™. Non-stop passing thrills are brought to life as you’re thrown into the middle of the action from opening day all the way to the ArenaBowl.

• Statistical edge: Review real-time info about your opponent's scoring history, fatigue levels, gameplay tendencies, and more.
• Old school play: Line up and play smash-mouth eight-on-eight football, as many players line up on both sides of the ball.
• Arena greatness: Build an Arena powerhouse and win it all in Season mode or challenge the best players in the nation online.
• Greatest show on turf: The walls are in play as exciting physical hits and showboating antics make for non-stop action!
• Receiver’s game: Create routes on the fly and elude defenders with this revolutionary new feature that lets you control receivers right from the snap.
• Authentic Arena playbooks: Light up the scoreboard with an all-out aerial assault using playbooks created by actual Arena coaches.

Description

Arena Football is a simulation of the sport of the same name. It shares many similarities with the Madden Series, whose engine it uses, but has a different play-style thanks to Arena football's rather different rules. The game is played indoors with teams of eight on a 50-yard field and the sidelines and uprights have barriers to make balls that would go out of bounds in standard American football bounce back into the play field. It is still considered live at this point. Obviously, this makes the game much faster-paced and higher-scoring.

Features include a coach's pick which will recommend plays, a telemetry view, which lets you see how tired both your players and the opposing ones are along with passing routes so you can set good match-ups, a quick play mode, a season mode, which allows you to go up to 20 seasons and trade players, set salaries, etc, practice and online play.

Arena Football is officially licensed by the Arena Football League and includes all the teams and players from the 2006 season. New Orleans VooDoo is not included as they sat this season out due to hurricane Katrina, though their logo is available to use for created teams. Numerous historic teams are also available.